I can't decide whether this is potentially awesome or incredibly stupid.

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The latter.

Nazis are not fucking cartoon characters, this isn't some Alien vs. Predator fantasy crap, Nazis represented the worst aspects of man. Why even park in the ballpark of getting close to that?

To me, it's pretty much bullshit that a movie is turning them into sci-fi baddies.

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Right, like that's never been done before.

Colonel Dietrich (Wolf Kahler) is a German Wehrmacht officer that has been ordered by Hitler to oversee the search for the Ark of the Covenant by the French archaeologist Belloq. Dietrich is loyal to his leader and is determined that Germany will possess the Ark, allowing nothing to stand in his way of that goal.

Dietrich tolerates Belloq's fascination with Marion Ravenwood but when he has what he traveled to Egypt for, he doesn't spare a moment's hesitation in dispensing of the American woman, making her suffer the same entombment that the Nazis have in store for Indiana Jones.

I can't decide whether this is potentially awesome or incredibly stupid.

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The latter.

Nazis are not fucking cartoon characters, this isn't some Alien vs. Predator fantasy crap, Nazis represented the worst aspects of man. Why even park in the ballpark of getting close to that?

To me, it's pretty much bullshit that a movie is turning them into sci-fi baddies.

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I see your point, though the Nazis have been parodied numerous times -- including by Bugs Bunny and the Stooges at the time. I think there's something to the idea that making something evil look ridiculous takes away its power.

I can't decide whether this is potentially awesome or incredibly stupid.

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The latter.

Nazis are not fucking cartoon characters, this isn't some Alien vs. Predator fantasy crap, Nazis represented the worst aspects of man. Why even park in the ballpark of getting close to that?

To me, it's pretty much bullshit that a movie is turning them into sci-fi baddies.

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Right, like that's never been done before.

Colonel Dietrich (Wolf Kahler) is a German Wehrmacht officer that has been ordered by Hitler to oversee the search for the Ark of the Covenant by the French archaeologist Belloq. Dietrich is loyal to his leader and is determined that Germany will possess the Ark, allowing nothing to stand in his way of that goal.

Dietrich tolerates Belloq's fascination with Marion Ravenwood but when he has what he traveled to Egypt for, he doesn't spare a moment's hesitation in dispensing of the American woman, making her suffer the same entombment that the Nazis have in store for Indiana Jones.

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Have you ever read a Spielberg interview? Part of the reason he made Schindler's List is he was ashamed of the cartoonish way he portrayed Nazis in the Indiana Jones series.